Re: [Pan-users] Re: Follow question

[Ron Johnson]

On 2009-08-10 21:31, Duncan wrote:
> Doug Saylor posted on Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:03:17 -0500 as excerpted:
>
> > Thanks again for everyone's help. Question: why didn't un-installing Pan
> > then re-installing solve my problem? Thanks.
>
> IIRC (after checking your OP), you're new to Linux from Windows, correct?
>
> Linux works a bit differently than MS Windows in this regard.  Linux 
> separates user data and general system configuration and applications 
> much more effectively than MS does (or used to, anyway, I've not used MS 
> since 9x).  The idea is that one should not affect the other, both 
> because Linux, as with all *ix, was designed from the beginning as a 
> multi-user system, with each user having their own separate settings, and 
> so that each individual user and the system in general can be managed 
> separately.
>
> So when you uninstalled pan, you uninstalled the executable and other 
> system data related to pan, but it didn't touch your user data, including 
> your pan user data.  Since that's where the problem was, uninstalling and 
> reinstalling pan did nothing to solve it.

The flip-side of this is the PC mentality, which presumes that only 
one person will really use a computer, and so apps are designed in a 
very "selfish" manner, under the assumption that the logged-in user 
owns the hardware.  (Windows has actually gotten slightly better in 
this regard, pushed, I think, by the virus/worm threat and Linux.)

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